Alice Sweet Alice has released an updated version of its 2008 song "Alone" in celebration of the second leg of its 2012 Singularity Tour to New Orleans, Memphis, and Little Rock. Available to stream at their Bandcamp website.

Here’s the video for "A Mirror, A Torch," the new single from The Slowdown, who has a full-length album due out toward the end of summer. 

Yes, it’s true. Nude Beach likes that old time rock n’ roll. With their style of throwback jams, the band is bound to conjure comparisons with heartland rockers like ‘The River’ era Springsteen and Tom Petty. You’ll hear plenty of comparisons like this in reviews of their sophomore record ‘II,’ but mostly from folks who forget how hard it really is to make this kind of music sound right.

For this sound to work, there’s a couple of ingredients you need to get right: the swagger needs to look like you don’t care much about anything, but the lyrics need to come across as passionate. In the fast-stepping rocker ‘Walkin’ Down My Street,’ or the lonely hearts anthem ‘Some Kinda Love,’ both marks are hit. And you have to sound as large as possible, but still have the lyrics be easy enough to hear and comprehend, as singer/guitarist Chuck Betz also manages to deliver well.

For just being a three piece, the group has somehow managed to sound like the Heartbreakers, the E Street Band, Bob Seeger and Rick Springfield all rolled up into one. It’s quite an accomplishment. So perhaps the best comparison for the Brooklyn-based group is the Ramones, a band that also remade classic rock as their own.

See them when they play Wed, June 6 with Babies and Marvin Berry at Glasslands Gallery. – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)

Chevy has chosen to highlight the KC music scene with a short documentary series, focusing on 8 local bands and sponsored by local Chevy dealers. Starting May 30, the documentaries will air Wednesdays on KCWE between 9:40-9:50p during Entertainment Tonight and again between 10:40-10:45p during The Office. On Thursdays, episodes will air on KMBC between 11:29-11:34p during The Big Bang Theory and again between 12:58-1:03a during Jimmy Kimmel Live!. On Fridays, episodes will air on KMBC between 12:58-1:03 a.m. during Jimmy Kimmel Live!.

Here’s the schedule:

• Maps for Travelers, May 30
• David Burchfield and the Great Stop, June 6
• Sons of Great Dane, June 13
• The Dead Girls, June 20
• Making Movies, June 27
• The Silver Maggies, July 4
• Margo May, July 11
• Soft Reeds, July 18

And here’s a video from Maps for Travelers, the first band featured in the series!

From moody folk and gospel, to unexpected marches and screaming fireworks, Kim Krans & Family Band moves its way through some heavy material in new EP ‘Cold Songs.’ Though she could reasonably be accused of the kind of drawl singing usually associated with folksy singers like Chan Marshall, Kim Krans is no direct descendant of Cat Power either. She uses her powers in quite different ways. In track "Beg" for instance, there are plenty of twists and turns reminiscent of Radiohead’s moodier journeys. Likewise, album opener ‘Cold Song’ begins innocently enough, before knocking you over the head with its drumlins midway through. For this band, it’s the unexpected unfolding of these songs that makes it really come together.

This is a record that abandons you in the middle of the forest for an evening, and comes to find you joyous in the morning, after experiencing the full range of that journey. See Family Band live at Brooklyn Bowl on June 4 within the Levon Helm celebration party, and check back in July for a full length.- Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)

As you may know here at The Deli we don’t do much photo coverage of live events if any (Brooklyn Vegan has that market cornered), but since Kassandra Balli offered to take pictures at our NYC B.E.A.F. 2012 shows, this time around we have something to show you! Check out Kassandra’s photos here, there are a lot of great shots. Thanks Kassy! – (In the picture: Big Ups)

Antennas Up is one of our favorite Kansas City bands. Formed in 2008, the quartet showcases a range of genres in its music: funk, hip-hop, dance, electronic, and radio-friendly pop. The band is not afraid to take risks, but can execute its craft better than most bands in Kansas City, let alone around the nation.

The group’s latest album, The Awkward Phase, was released on May 15 to favorable reviews.

The band also recently completed a successful Kickstarter project to get the album on airwaves across the country and more than exceeded the goal. Cheers!

Check out the first single from The Awkward Phase, "December."

Antennas Up is:

• Kyle Akers: lead vox, bass
• Bo McCall: guitar, vox
• The Ryantist: drums, vox
• Jonny Universe: guitar, keys, vox

The Deli will be sponsoring the 6th Annual LC Fest, organized by Local Correspondents, a Brooklyn-based independent music community. This year’s fest runs from Wednesday, June 6 through Saturday, June 9 at Bar4 in Park Slope (444 7th Avenue). The free four-night festival features twelve 20-minute sets each night, and performances are from 8 p.m. to midnight, with doors at 6 p.m.

Here’s a shortlist of recommended performances: Jodi Shaw (June 6), Matt Singer (June 7), Paul Basile of Great Elk (also June 7), Shannon Pelcher (June 8) and Bryan Dunn (also June 8) have all just recently released new albums, while The Bright Silence (June 9) opened for Spacehog in February. Plus, Heidi Sidelinker (also June 9) is most well-known for being in Lowry, but is playing a rare solo set at this free festival, as is Casey Shea (June 7), who almost always plays with a band and has been touring almost non-stop since his new album came out earlier this year.

A full schedule of performers is available here.

Local Correspondents (LC) is a supportive Brooklyn-based community for independent artists. In addition to its annual festival, LC hosts weekly showcases and open mic nights at venues throughout New York City, bringing together an extremely talented and diverse group of performers. LC offers a helping hand to performers who live and visit the NYC area by providing them with advice, tips and opportunities to play.

Skaters is one of the most interesting new indie rock bands highlighted in our latest year end Best of NYC Emerging Artists Poll. The band was formed less than one year ago and consists of Michael Cummings and Noah Rubin (The Dead Trees, Adam Green, Little Joy), who spent a year trading demos back and forth from Los Angeles to London with Guitarist Joshua Hubbard (The Paddingtons, Dirty Pretty Things). The three met in the middle to record an EP in a Manhattan loft, and never left the city.Skaters just released this video of the song "Done for Good" from their debut "SCHEMERS" EP – which can be downloaded for free here.

A bit of advice: If you’ve just listened to the first track off Foxygen‘s debut LP ‘Take The Kids Off Broadway’ and are a bit puzzled, don’t worry! That’s just the band shifting your brain cells around to prepare you for what comes next. ‘Make it Known’ makes Ariel Pink’s ‘Hold On’ sound halfhearted… hell, this song could be our new anthem if we’re not careful.

But that’s probably not what they had in mind. A lot of this duo’s music feels entirely off the cuff, even while sounding like a lot of time was spent on these tracks. Occupying that historical space somewhere between hippie psychedelia like 13th Floor Elevators, and glam rock like Roxy Music/early Bowie, it’s hard to tell what era this music was conceived in – which is the very prerequisite of timeless records. Frankly, this is a band that can’t seem to make up their mind about much of anything, and it’s probably for the best. The twin vocals of songwriting team Sam France and Jonathan Rado seem to switch genre entirely mid-verse or mid-hook, going from a tumult of horns and organs to jangly guitar and back again. Leader-of-the-pack motorcycle rock n’ roll gives way to Shirelles fanfare and viceversa, all fronted by something close to Mick Jagger… it’s retrolicious, through and through.

If all this sounds looney tunes, well… it kinda is. But maybe I’m just being old-fashioned. As Foxygen says themselves: "How could I love someone if I’m not willing to change?" Bedroom production aside, this is the clearest representation of something new I’ve heard in quite some time. – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)

Making music is an act of devotion for Seattle’s Subaqueous, who brings the mysteries of the subconscious to light in his second full-length album "Immerge". Working with a variety of guest artists from vocalists to udu players, Subaqueous creates fluid downtempo electronica inhabited by tribal drums, deep grooves and vagrant melodies. Using gypsy scales and the blues to create an enigmatic vibe, "Immerge" evokes an inner journey through trance-inducing basslines that roll beneath a heavy beauty.